Social Science & Medicine

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2018, volume 210, articles C

Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials pp. 2-21

Angus Deaton and Nancy Cartwright

2018, volume 209, articles C

How do gender relations affect the working lives of close to community health service providers? Empirical research, a review and conceptual framework pp. 1-13

Rosalind Steege, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Rosalind McCollum, Kate Hawkins, Hermen Ormel, Maryse Kok, Sabina Rashid, Lilian Otiso, Mohsin Sidat, Kingsley Chikaphupha, Daniel Gemechu Datiko, Rukhsana Ahmed, Rachel Tolhurst, Woedem Gomez and Sally Theobald

Spatial accessibility of primary health care in China: A case study in Sichuan Province pp. 14-24

Xiuli Wang, Huazhen Yang, Zhanqi Duan and Jay Pan

The impact of intimate partner violence on women's contraceptive use: Evidence from the Rakai Community Cohort Study in Rakai, Uganda pp. 25-32

Lauren Maxwell, Heena Brahmbhatt, Anthony Ndyanabo, Jennifer Wagman, Gertrude Nakigozi, Jay S. Kaufman, Fred Nalugoda, David Serwadda and Arijit Nandi

Examining community and consumer food environments for children: An urban-suburban-rural comparison in Southwestern Ontario pp. 33-42

Catherine M. DuBreck, Richard C. Sadler, Godwin Arku and Jason A. Gilliland

Refugees’ admission to mental health institutions in Norway: Is there an ethnic density effect? pp. 43-50

Jon Erik Finnvold and Elisabeth Ugreninov

Childhood socioeconomic status and longitudinal patterns of alcohol problems: Variation across etiological pathways in genetic risk pp. 51-58

Peter B. Barr, Judy Silberg, Danielle M. Dick and Hermine H. Maes

Psychological well-being and restorative biological processes: HDL-C in older English adults pp. 59-66

Jackie Soo, Laura D. Kubzansky, Ying Chen, Emily S. Zevon and Julia K. Boehm

Ethnic enclaves and birth outcomes of immigrants from India in a diverse U.S. state pp. 67-75

Jennifer B. Kane, Julien O. Teitler and Nancy E. Reichman

Adult children's educational attainment and the cognitive trajectories of older parents in South Korea pp. 76-85

Yeonjin Lee

“I feel like I am less than other people”: Health-related vulnerabilities of male migrants travelling alone on their journey to Europe pp. 86-94

Jovana Arsenijević, Doris Burtscher, Aurelie Ponthieu, Nathalie Severy, Andrea Contenta, Stephane Moissaing, Stefano Argenziano, Federica Zamatto, Rony Zachariah, Engy Ali and Emilie Venables

Changing sex risk behaviors, gender norms, and relationship dynamics among couples in Cape Town, South Africa: Efficacy of an intervention on the dyad pp. 95-103

Ilene S. Speizer, William A. Zule, Tara Carney, Felicia A. Browne, Jacqueline Ndirangu and Wendee M. Wechsberg

Organs and organisations: Situating ethics in organ donation after circulatory death in the UK pp. 104-110

Jessie Cooper

A tax on sugar sweetened beverages in Colombia: Estimating the impact on overweight and obesity prevalence across socio economic levels pp. 111-116

Andres I. Vecino-Ortiz and Daniel Arroyo-Ariza

Migration among temporary foreign workers: Examining health and access to health care among Filipina live-in caregivers pp. 117-124

Jessica Krystle Carlos and Kathi Wilson

The mobility of food retailers: How proximity to SNAP authorized food retailers changed in Atlanta during the Great Recession pp. 125-135

Jerry Shannon, Grace Bagwell-Adams, Sarah Shannon, Jung Sun Lee and Yangjiaxin Wei

The moral significance of capturing micro-inequities in hospital settings pp. 136-144

Supriya Subramani

Tuberculosis patients and resilience: A visual ethnographic health study in Khayelitsha, Cape Town pp. 145-151

Anne Lia Cremers, René Gerrets, Christopher James Colvin, Monwabisi Maqogi and Martin Peter Grobusch

Relationship transitions and change in health behavior: A four-phase, twelve-year longitudinal study pp. 152-159

Kim Josefsson, Marko Elovainio, Sari Stenholm, Ichiro Kawachi, Maarit Kauppi, Ville Aalto, Mika Kivimäki and Jussi Vahtera

Impact of missing data strategies in studies of parental employment and health: Missing items, missing waves, and missing mothers pp. 160-168

Cattram D. Nguyen, Lyndall Strazdins, Jan M. Nicholson and Amanda R. Cooklin

Loneliness in middle age and biomarkers of systemic inflammation: Findings from Midlife in the United States pp. 174-181

Paula V. Nersesian, Hae-Ra Han, Gayane Yenokyan, Roger S. Blumenthal, Marie T. Nolan, Melissa D. Hladek and Sarah L. Szanton

2018, volume 208, articles C

How does performance-based financing affect health workers' intrinsic motivation? A Self-Determination Theory-based mixed-methods study in Malawi pp. 1-8

Julia Lohmann, Adamson S. Muula, Nathalie Houlfort and Manuela De Allegri

Perceptions of intersectional stigma among diverse women living with HIV in the United States pp. 9-17

Whitney S. Rice, Carmen H. Logie, Tessa M. Napoles, Melonie Walcott, Abigail W. Batchelder, Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Gina M. Wingood, Deborah J. Konkle-Parker, Bulent Turan, Tracey E. Wilson, Mallory O. Johnson, Sheri D. Weiser and Janet M. Turan

The complexity of self-regulating food intake in weight loss maintenance. A qualitative study among short- and long-term weight loss maintainers pp. 18-24

Susanne Pedersen, Falko F. Sniehotta, Kirby Sainsbury, Elizabeth H. Evans, Marta M. Marques, R. James Stubbs, Berit L. Heitmann and Liisa Lähteenmäki

Social isolation and loneliness in later life: A parallel convergent mixed-methods case study of older adults and their residential contexts in the Minneapolis metropolitan area, USA pp. 25-33

Jessica M. Finlay and Lindsay C. Kobayashi

Epistemic tensions between people living with asthma and healthcare professionals in clinical encounters pp. 34-40

Jennie Haw, Shannon Cunningham and Kieran C. O'Doherty

The effect of street-level greenery on walking behavior: Evidence from Hong Kong pp. 41-49

Yi Lu, Chinmoy Sarkar and Yang Xiao

Born equal? The distribution of government Medicare spending for children pp. 50-54

Kim M. Dalziel, Li Huang, Harriet Hiscock and Philip M. Clarke

Laugh and grow fat: Happiness affects body mass index among Urban Chinese adults pp. 55-63

Shuanglong Li, Yunsong Chen and Guangye He

HIV as social and ecological experience pp. 64-71

Brian King and Margaret S. Winchester

Understanding the conceptualisation of risk in the context of community dementia care pp. 72-79

Marissa Dickins, Dianne Goeman, Fleur O'Keefe, Steve Iliffe and Dimity Pond

Grandmother and health care professional breastfeeding perspectives provide opportunities for health promotion in an American Indian community pp. 80-88

Bailey Houghtaling, Carmen Byker Shanks, Selena Ahmed and Elizabeth Rink

Time matters for intersex bodies: Between socio-medical time and somatic time pp. 89-97

Limor Meoded Danon

Social support under siege: An analysis of forced migration among women from the Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 107-116

Karin Wachter and Lauren E. Gulbas

Freedom of choice, expressions of gratitude: Patient experiences of short-term surgical missions in Guatemala pp. 117-125

Stephanie Roche, Morgan Brockington, Sana Fathima, Meghna Nandi, Benjamin Silverberg, Henry E. Rice and Rachel Hall-Clifford

“Like finding a unicorn”: Healthcare preferences among lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in the United States pp. 126-133

Alexander J. Martos, Patrick A. Wilson, Allegra R. Gordon, Marguerita Lightfoot and Ilan H. Meyer

Long term economic impact associated with childhood bullying victimisation pp. 134-141

Nicola Brimblecombe, Sara Evans-Lacko, Martin Knapp, Derek King, Ryu Takizawa, Barbara Maughan and Louise Arseneault

Internal migration and mental health of the second generation. The case of Turin in the age of the Italian economic miracle pp. 142-149

Mario Cardano, Cecilia Scarinzi, Giuseppe Costa and d’Errico, Angelo

States higher in racial bias spend less on disabled medicaid enrollees pp. 150-157

Jordan B. Leitner, Eric Hehman and Lonnie R. Snowden

Judgment hurts: The psychological consequences of experiencing stigma in multiple sclerosis pp. 158-164

Margaret H. Cadden, Peter A. Arnett, Tuula M. Tyry and Jonathan E. Cook

The role of language in suicide reporting: Investigating the influence of problematic suicide referents pp. 165-171

Florian Arendt, Sebastian Scherr, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler and Benedikt Till

“In this together”: Social identification predicts health outcomes (via self-efficacy) in a chronic disease self-management program pp. 172-179

James E. Cameron, Jennifer Voth, Susan B. Jaglal, Sara J.T. Guilcher, Gillian Hawker and Nancy M. Salbach

Improving mental health among ultra-poor children: Two-year outcomes of a cluster-randomized trial in Burkina Faso pp. 180-189

Leyla Ismayilova, Leyla Karimli, Jo Sanson, Eleni Gaveras, Rachel Nanema, Alexice Tô-Camier and Josh Chaffin

Structural stigma and the health and wellbeing of Australian LGB populations: Exploiting geographic variation in the results of the 2017 same-sex marriage plebiscite pp. 190-199

Francisco Perales and Abram Todd

Multiple social groups support adjustment to retirement across cultures pp. 200-208

Ben C.P. Lam, Catherine Haslam, S. Alexander Haslam, Niklas K. Steffens, Tegan Cruwys, Jolanda Jetten and Jie Yang

2018, volume 207, articles C

The impact of institution use on the wellbeing of Alzheimer's disease patients and their caregivers pp. 1-10

Thomas Rapp, Bénédicte Apouey and Claudia Senik

Quality of life at the retirement transition: Life course pathways in an early ‘baby boom’ birth cohort pp. 11-18

Josephine M. Wildman, Suzanne Moffatt and Mark Pearce

Maternal medical risks during pregnancy and childhood externalizing behavior pp. 19-24

Dylan B. Jackson and Michael G. Vaughn

The role of government and community in the scaling up and sustainability of mutual health organisations: An exploratory study in Ghana pp. 25-37

Augustine Adomah-Afari and Jim A. Chandler

Linking green space to neighborhood social capital in older adults: The role of perceived safety pp. 38-45

Andy Hong, James F. Sallis, Abby C. King, Terry L. Conway, Brian Saelens, Kelli L. Cain, Eric H. Fox and Lawrence D. Frank

Can conditional health policies be justified? A policy analysis of the new NHS dental contract reforms pp. 46-54

Louise Laverty and Rebecca Harris

If you drink, don't smoke: Joint associations between risky health behaviors and labor market outcomes pp. 55-63

Petri Böckerman, Ari Hyytinen, Jaakko Kaprio and Terhi Maczulskij

Inpatient care expenditure of the elderly with chronic diseases who use public health insurance: Disparity in their last year of life pp. 64-70

Worawan Chandoevwit and Phasith Phatchana

Institutionalised otherness: Patients references to psychiatric diagnostic categories pp. 71-79

Elina Weiste, Anssi Peräkylä, Taina Valkeapää, Enikö Savander and Jukka Hintikka

Quality of clinical care and bypassing of primary health centers in India pp. 80-88

Krishna D. Rao and Ashley Sheffel

Intergenerational pathways linking maternal early life adversity to offspring birthweight pp. 89-96

Jennifer B. Kane, Kathleen Mullan Harris and Anna Maria Siega-Riz

Different domains – Different time preferences? pp. 97-105

Eskild Klausen Fredslund, Morten Mørkbak and Dorte Gyrd-Hansen

Individual decisions to vaccinate one's child or oneself: A discrete choice experiment rejecting free-riding motives pp. 106-116

Frederik Verelst, Lander Willem, Roselinde Kessels and Philippe Beutels